This article by Paul Craig Roberts and Norman Van Cott appeared in the Spring 1999 issue of The Independent Review and was presented to an annual conference of the Western Economics Association during the 1970s. People familiar with Michael Polanyi are impressed by his intellectual powers, the range of his mind, and his ability to get to the heart of…

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